By the industrial production of chains the offer of hand made chains become more and more uncommon. At last, this is due to the fact,
that knowledge of manual chain making gets lost more and more.

Hand made chains got their own “heart”. On one hand they must be made faultless and precise, since imprecision may increase, on the other hand each chain link is hinged and finished manually by the goldsmith. This takes hours, and days. The applied force is varying, thereby small imperfections occur, which finally “breath life” into the chain.